Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda said Sunday he is considering sending personnel to Afghanistan for land-based activities.''We could be involved in land-based activities in Afghanistan if the conditions there enable us to deploy. I'm always considering such a possibility," Fukuda
TOKYO, June 1 (UPI) -- Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda said Sunday he is considering sending personnel to Afghanistan for "land-based activities."
Afghanistan supplies virtually all of the world's illegal opium. Last year, the country's drug trade was a $4 billion business, half of which alone was produced in the south where the fighting against the Taliban insurgency is the fiercest.
Getting Afghanistan to rid itself of poppy is a pillar of U.S. policy there, because the Taliban use profits from opium as a source of revenue. For Afghans themselves, however, feelings about poppy are conflicted: It's harmful to their country
Peter Spiege reports in the LA Times, from Singapore:A senior Chinese general insisted Saturday that Beijing's military buildup was solely for self-defense, as he sought to assure a gathering of Asian defense officials that China was not seeking to dominate
From AP, via the LA Times:A military transport helicopter crashed in China's earthquake-devastated south-central region with 14 people aboard, the official news agency said today.The New China News Agency's report gave no word on any survivors or casualties. The report
John Chow, the richest man in the blog world, arrived in China on 12 May, he posted a series of China travel articles on his blog.I think these articles are very valuable for me, because it lessons for me to
The United States likely will decide "within days" to move four U.S. Navy ships that have been waiting off the coast of Burma for permission from the country's ruling military junta to provide help to cyclone-stricken residents, Defense Secretary Robert
Speakers at the Forum included heads of states, presidents of universities, managers of non-profit, volunteering and charitable institutions; executives of private and semi-private companies, as well as individual and institutional activists and donors.
Salaries and wages of labourers in the private sector companies will be transferred through banks operating in the UAE on a monthly basis in the context of organizing the affairs of labourers working...Continue to the full story at www.dubaichronicle.com
There will be no more free parking at Bur Juman as the mall on Sunday imposed parking charges on an hourly basis.It will now cost Dh20 per hour from 6am to 6pm, but shoppers spending Dh 100 or more...Continue to
Source: http://sify.com/finance/fullstory.php?id=14685288 We differentiate ourselves from the rest of the venture funds by capturing end-to-end value chain in real estate," says Ved Prakash Arya, MD, Milestone Capital Advisors, a venture fund that invests in Indian real estate. With a background
Naqoura - Israel has released a Lebanese-born man ( to a Jewish Lebanese mother and a Shia father) who had served a six-year jail term on charges of spying for Hezbollah, the Lebanese Shia organization.
Beirut - German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier concluded Sunday his talks in Lebanon by visiting his country's troops who are serving with the UN Maritime Task Force off the coast. "I saw signs of hope" in Lebanon Steinmeier said
Beirut - Lebanese flooded the streets of Beirut on Sunday for the second annual Run for Peace. The marathon consists of a 5-kilometer students' race and a 21-kilometer international half-marathon, and is open to athletes of all nationalities.
Beirut- The focus will continue to be the forming of the government of National Unity . PM designate Fouad Siniora sounded optimistic after completing his consultations and presenting them to the preident. Siniora however did admit that the task is
